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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: autotools for barebox host/target tools?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:00:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222180026.GA32137@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180222080357.7ces7vlsip6gnmxs@pengutronix.de>

Hi Sasha.

> I was just thinking, the kernel build system is great for compiling
> barebox itself, but for compiling the userspace host and target tools
> autotools would be a better match as they much better allow to specify
> the necessary compilers and to pull the necessary dependencies in.

What specific problems are you trying to solve that is
not solved today by the support in scripts/Makefile.host?

I notice you want to build tools for the target as well.
This should be relatively easy to add support for that using
the current kbuild syntax.

I we are going for something more standard then cmake or meson
are more modern choices than the dreadful autotools stuff.
And with modern I also imply better / simpler.

> Any opinions or even volunteers?

Any specific program you have in mind?

	Sam

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-22  8:03 Sascha Hauer
2018-02-22 14:20 ` Giorgio Dal Molin
2018-02-22 18:00 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2018-02-26  7:40   ` Sascha Hauer

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